Marie France is a graduate of fine arts from a Beaux Arts School and of
liberal arts from the Sorbonne in Paris, France. She has been designing
costumes for 27 years, and began her career collaborating with
musician-composer Prince, designing his features "Purple Rain" and
"Under the Cherry Moon", and his music videos.
While designing for other music videos, she worked with such artists as
Nathalie Cole, Don Henley, Tina Turner, Rod Stewart, Steve Winwood and
George Clinton, to name a few.
Marie France subsequently designed the following features: "Bill and
Ted's Bogus Journey," "Tom and Huck," "The Borrowers," "Whatever
Happened to Harold Smith," and "Garfield" - all directed by Peter
Hewwitt. She also has worked with director Vondie Curtis Hall on "Waist
Deep" and "Gridlock'd" and director Ernest Dickerson on"Bulletproof,"
and "Never Die Alone." Other credits include "Encino Man," "Buffy the
Vampire Slayer", "Stop or my Mom will Shoot", "Coneheads," "Keys to
Tulsa", "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit", "Black Knight", "The Dangerous
Life of Altar Boys" and "A Texas Funeral" - among others. She also
worked on the pilot for the hit series "Beverly Hills 90210" and on the
pilots "Zip" (2008) and "Bad Mother's Handbook" (2008).